| The majority of of the most recent outlets and the | | | | you would have to have is a RFID cash register and a |
| bigger chain stores use RFID cash registers. RFID cash | | | | credit card swiper so that the patrons can pay. |
| registers are linked to an RFID reader which is used to | | | | A supermarket that now has twenty points of sale |
| scan the article being bought to get the price, record | | | | with twenty check out clerks, could have eighteen |
| the sale and control the stock. This method of | | | | RFID cash registers for those with credit cards and |
| recording the sale makes it quicker at the check out. It | | | | two conventional cash registers for customers paying |
| also reduces the human error factor. | | | | with cash. |
| Radio Frequency Identification or RFID is similar to | | | | In fact, because RFID cash registers are so much |
| utilizing bar codes but they can hold far more | | | | quicker, the superstore could probably do away with |
| information and they are usually not removed after | | | | five of those points of sale as well without any decline |
| purchase, because passive RFID tags can be really | | | | in service or quality to the clientele. |
| small and can be placed under labels on cans of food | | | | For the merchant, the cost of installing RFID cash |
| or sewn into clothing at the point of manufacture. | | | | registers is not insubstantial, but the costs will be |
| Every tag replies in a different frequency, so the | | | | recouped pretty quickly by the saving in wages. |
| goods in a shopping trolley do not even have to be | | | | RFID cash registers offer superior degrees of stock |
| taken out to be counted, which is the not the case | | | | control than bar code readers because the RFID tag |
| with bar codes. | | | | can hold a lot more information than a bar code. Stock |
| It is improbable that bar codes will disappear any time | | | | control is obviously important, because a retailer neither |
| soon because they are so widely used, but the fate of | | | | wants to run out of an article nor have too many of |
| bar codes is definitely sealed. They will be supplanted. | | | | an item tying up money. |
| Bar code readers are hand-held, but RFID readers can | | | | RFID cash registers, linked to a computer, can |
| be in a fixed place, scanning the shopping trolley from | | | | automatically show you which items are selling the |
| about a metre away. | | | | best and which goods are producing the most profit |
| RFID cash registers are bad news for check out | | | | for you. This makes it simple to order more of the |
| clerks, because they can work far more quickly than | | | | items at the top of the list and fewer of the goods at |
| conventional cash registers. You will not need to | | | | the bottom. |
| unload items and check out clerks will not have to hold | | | | In fact, even ordering could be automatic according to |
| every item and punch in the prices, so there will be no | | | | a set algorithm. The only likely drawback with RFID |
| mistakes either. | | | | cash registers is an interruption in the power supply., |
| In the future, outlets will only have to have check out | | | | but you could ease that inconvenience by having a |
| clerks for patrons who want to pay in cash. Most | | | | backup generator. |
| people pay with a credit or debit card nowadays, so all | | | | |